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The second motion said it was 'impossible to deliver routine non-urgent seven-day services across primary and secondary care, within the current five day financial resources and workforce' and called on the Government to 'publish a fully funded model for how it will deliver on its manifesto commitment for a seven-day service'.

In the debate, Dr Nagpaul said: ‘Let’s remember no country in the world can afford a tax-funded routine seven day service and I reject political claims that the public expect this.’

Dr Nagpaul added: ‘If our patients were explicitly told the truth that we’re the at lowest rung of healthcare spend in the developed world with dangerously low levels of GPs I’m convinced they would want us to use scant resources morally for the illest in society and it’s incumbent upon us as the BMA to vigorously communicate this to the population.'

He argued that routing seven-day access was negatively impacting on out-of-hours services, with one service in Norfolk having only having one GP cover for 850,000 patients, as Pulse reported.

Dr Nagpaul said: 'GPC’s position is that the priority must be to use our scarce GP resources to ensure a properly funded seven-day urgent care service, that is what will ensure acutely ill patients can receive responsive GP care to reduce hospital attendances, not by diverting GPs to provide routine diabetic checks on a Sunday.’

I vote for prolonged contemplation, a few more dinners, increase of BMA / RCGP fees and then trying really hard to strike a deal with the govt and come out stating how much worse it could have been. Spines not required.